THE SURVIVORS.
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1932.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Sibson, Francis H[enry]. THE SURVIVORS. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. 8vo., 312ppp. Inserted folded map, title page printed in orange & black, original pictorial gray cloth, front & spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. Edition of this "fantastic volcanic eruption under sea brings death to many, a strange romance to two". An adventure novel of survival following the collision of two ocean liners during an earthquake & the subsequent shipwrecks on New Canada, an island continent in the area of the Sargasso Sea raised by volcanic action & subterranean earthquakes. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s- 1930s p. 695. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 197. Bleiler (1978), p. 179. Reginald 13059. A very good copy that would be described as better save for a few final pages showin a bit of light tide marks at the bottom edge. The dustwrapper price clipped with matching tide mark present. Still a decent enough copy in the uncommon jacket.
Item #30982 Price: US$75.00